Bugzilla is an enterprise-class piece of software that tracks millions of bugs and issues for hundreds of organizations around the world.
Bugzilla does not provide a public interface for SCM integration. Nevertheless, the Scmbug daemon attempts to reuse functionality already available in the Perl-based Bugzilla libraries. As a result, the source code used to host a Bugzilla instance must be locally accessible by the daemon. The installation_directory variable is used to define the location of the Bugzilla source installation as shown in Figure 6-1.
Figure 6-1. Bug-tracker installation directory for Bugzilla.
# Used for Bugzilla and RequestTracker. # # Path to the directory of the bugtracker sources providing an # API that the daemon can use installation_directory => '/usr/share/bugzilla/lib'
Additionally, the installed_locally variable is used to flag whether Bugzilla is installed locally on the same machine the daemon is running as shown in Figure 6-2. This is required to flush Bugzilla's version cache when SCM tags are added or deleted, and immediately reflect tag manipulation to Bugzilla's user interface.
Figure 6-2. Bug-tracker installed locally variable.
# Used only for Bugzilla. # # Flags whether the live bugtracker instance is installed # locally on the same machine the daemon is running installed_locally => 1,
![]() | For example, it is possible to install Bugzilla in machine A, and install a duplicate Bugzilla source in machine B where Scmbug is installed. In this scenario installation_directory would be set to Bugzilla's source code path on machine B, but the variable installed_locally would be set to 0. |
The Bugzilla developers are planning to provide a formal SCM integration interface in future releases.
As of version 2.22.0, Bugzilla does not yet support a mapping of the SCM username to a Bugzilla username. An SCM to bug-tracking username mapping is accomodated by the integration daemon using the userlist variable, as described in Section 4.4.8.
Bugzilla currently lacks a per-bug comment id. This makes it very difficult to accurately report the comment ids in a VDD for Bugzilla. Currently, the VDD comment ids are prefixed with the string "inaccurate_".
Scmbug has been verified to work against the following releases of Bugzilla:
2.14.2
2.16.5
2.18rc2
2.19.2
2.20.1
2.22.0